Lets face it when a player like that is from your nation you love him, from another he bores you but appreciate the skill and ability they have for grinding on and on.

Cook's a champ, but I feel he is a little beyond the parameters here, didn't truly come good until the last ashes. I don't mind a soulless accumulator, but with Trott at 3, watching England beat you can be a chore, at least with Kallis players like Amla and AB tend to play around him. He has also become a bit more aggressive lately I reckon.

Originally Posted by Dawood Ahmad

Hamish, no body knows even name of him
But Ponting, there's great fame of him

I like this side. I have good aggressive batsmen with Kallis to provide balance in case things go pear-shaped. A mixture of left and right-handers in the top 7. Flintoff and Kallis as 3rd and 4th seamers allow me to play two spinners and also allow me to play the Akhtar, who could break down halfway though the match.

Perhaps posters are only looking at Flintoff's overall career record when they judge him unworthy of this side. At the beginning of the 2004 home season he had a dire 52 wickets from 29 matches at an average of 45.55. From that point onwards, he 174 wickets from 50 matches at an average of 28.97. Pretty good.

For the record, I consider Steyn a bowler of the 2010s, and Tendulkar a batsmen of the 1990s.

I'd replace Sehwag with Sangakkara to open the innings. From 2000-2009 he average 55 with the bat.

Member of the Sanga fan club. (Ugh! it took me so long to become a real fan of his)

Cook's a champ, but I feel he is a little beyond the parameters here, didn't truly come good until the last ashes. I don't mind a soulless accumulator, but with Trott at 3, watching England beat you can be a chore, at least with Kallis players like Amla and AB tend to play around him. He has also become a bit more aggressive lately I reckon.

Yeah, Cook obviously has no place in a noughties XI. His record since the start of 2010 is awesome though, so he's in pole position to open for the tens team.

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